[MAYA] How do you import obj's? Is it even possible??

diglett · Aug 2016

I have spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to import an OBJ to Maya LT 2016. It's absolutely ridiculous that you can't simply click file, import obj, select the file, and hit open. #why

m4dcow · Aug 2016

diglett said:

I have spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to import an OBJ to Maya LT 2016. It's absolutely ridiculous that you can't simply click file, import obj, select the file, and hit open. #why

So I was about to write a scathing post and realized I missed the LT part of Maya LT 2016.
I guess the reason is that they want to make things annoying enough that you pony up for the full Maya. Fact is OBJ import is trivial since I think you can import FBX files with a polycount ceiling in Maya LT.

diglett · Aug 2016

Yeah I ended up just importing it as an FBX... wasted a lot of time on this though >:(

MmAaXx · Aug 2016

lol.
Looks like Maya is not "that" production ready anymore!

Joopson · Aug 2016

Not sure if it's the case, but did you look in the plugin manager for "Objexport.mll" and enable it?

diglett · Aug 2016

I will double check Joopson, thanks for suggestion

RN · Aug 2016

I noticed some deformations on an imported OBJ from Blender.
FBX looks fine, I'm not touching OBJ again.

JedTheKrampus · Aug 2016

RN said:

I noticed some deformations on an imported OBJ from Blender.
FBX looks fine, I'm not touching OBJ again.

That probably shouldn't happen. OBJ is a really simple, well-specified format, and it's implemented pretty well in almost every program. Did you try to reproduce it?

RN · Aug 2016

I didn't look further into it since the FBX worked, but I agree. I remember a Naughty Dog Uncharted article mentioning that they used OBJ for models.

miguelnarayan · Aug 2016

Like it was said above, it sounds like it's a disabled setting in your maya preferences. Sometimes it disables itself and you got to go there tick it back

[MAYA] How do you import obj's? Is it even possible??

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